Christy42 wrote: » Where are you getting 45% from? YouGov have it at 40%/41%. 42% according to 538's aggregator. 45% is not up and standing. It is just good for Trump. 8 years ago was a relatively low point for Obama's popularity and he was about 46% with a better disapproval rating as well. If Trump keeps going up it might stop the blue wave but at current levels he is still in trouble there.https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/trump-approval-ratings/?ex_cid=rrpromo Interesting to note that Trump's policy was incomplete and does not deal with those already separated. Guess he wanted to have it off his desk to say he did something (about the damage he caused). He also went back to lock her up etc. at a campaign rally (calling a spade a spade). Back to the deflection tactics. He has been told he messed up big I reckon. Is this the first time he has been forced to retreat because of the views of the US public? I mean the courts blocked some things but he tended to keep fighting and he has backed off of plenty of international opponents but not the people as far as I remember.
TomOnBoard wrote: » Water John wrote: » Trump has a majority in both Houses and can't get much done. Imagine what 2019 will be like for him if there's any kind of Blue Wave!!! Phew!!! Mind you, Trump support being on the Up,and now standing at 45% might Redden that wave a bit. Unless the 45 is a blip??
Water John wrote: » Trump has a majority in both Houses and can't get much done.
jooksavage wrote: » In the bizarro-world of Trump, i wouldnt be entirely surprised of this blunder could be used by POTUS as pretext to push Sessions out (In spite of giving the policy his full-throated support). The Senate Rs had apparently told Trump previously that they wouldnt endorse a replacement for Sessions if he was fired. The last week might have changed things a bit - someone is going to have to carry the can for this and Sessions scalp mightn't be as safe in light of the public backlash.
aloyisious wrote: » Don "I can do nothing about the matter as the Dem's are blocking all moves" - Don sign's executive order overturning the policy of seizure of children and separation of them from their parents by federal agents in his employ, after his Attorney General said the policy of seizure is perfectly legal and given Godly sanction, keeping the law-abiding God-fearing base onside. The best thing now for the media is to keep the point of responsibility on Jeff, as Don's pointsman, now, keep asking him how Don was able to scrap the child-seizure policy without assist from Capitol Hill, isn't the act of Don scrapping the legal action improper as it endanger's the US. Don't ask Don or his press agent about the policy or it's scrapping, keep after Jeff.
Akrasia wrote: » Not insane people American Republican voters at least have the excuse of decades of brainwashing and conditioning. What's your excuse?
derb12 wrote: » There's also a chance that Cohen might not be asked to cooperate and have his sentence reduced. The documents/recordings they have already might be useful enough to mueller without actual testimony!
mattser wrote: » Who are us ?
Dohnjoe wrote: » Just read one of the recent approval ratings, it's at 45% for Trump As abhorrent as he might be to us - a significant number of Americans like him and his policies. We're only going to see more clones of him as future candidates.
Leroy42 wrote: » So Trump has announced that he will be doing 'something special' later today to deal with the issue of separating children from their parents. Whilst a belated good move a number of issues: - This put to bed the lie that the Dems were to blame - This makes the likes of Sessions and Nielson look totally out of step, they pushed this hard. Miller must also be considered weakened. - Makes Trump look really weak. His supporters have all said this week that he is only securing the border, so how can they accept such a climb down? Has is become soft on the borders? What about all those MS13 members that are going to flood in? Does he not care about the huge amounts of crime that will now happen? - He doesn't need a executive order. One wasn't needed to start this, it isn't needed to stop it. A phone call the the ICE leader would do the trick. He is staging this to make it look like he is doing something (despite telling the world that he couldn't do anything the last few days)
TomOnBoard wrote: » So when some of "his base" breaks with the popular characterisation of their views, they're "fickle"?? Perhaps his base is actually a collection of ppl who share many views but are also free-thinking individuals, rather than some dull-eyed brainwashed mass that can't think. I would have thought that someone like Geraldo being willing to taken on Hannity's polemics, rather than simply subscribing to the Lewandowski " Wah! Wah!" attitude would be welcomed as strength of character rather than being evidence of fickle- ness (if that's even a word) of Trumps supporters. If you lump everyone into an amorphous mass of "deplorables", you take away their humanness and propagate the Us vs Them narrative that just reinforces stereotypes based on ignorance and hate. And that's exactly what Trumps base is accused of. Trumps base is a heterogenous grouping of ppl who, among other things, feels left behind by decades of Washington flim-flam and day to day ignorance of that bases' fears and issues. Trump's success has resulted from his conman techniques harnessing that group's isolation from the Washington elite. So I welcome Geraldo's conscience-based outburst on Hannity and hope to see much more of it. If such outbursts become a feature of the rest of Trump's base, I'll welcome that too.
Captain Obvious wrote: » They lost a lot of supporters, at least temporarily. Seeing Geraldo going of on Hannity was something to behold. Shows how fickle some of his base is.
